Willson H. Lee Co. v. NEW HAVEN PRINTING PRESSMEN LOC. U. NO. 74
Decision Date | 17 December 1965 |
Docket Number | Civ. No. 11176. |
Court | U.S. District Court — District of Connecticut |
Parties | The WILLSON H. LEE CO., Plaintiff, v. NEW HAVEN PRINTING PRESSMEN LOCAL UNION NO. 74, Defendant. |
William K. Bennett, Ansonia, Conn., for plaintiff.
Norman Zolot, New Haven, Conn., for defendant.
The company having moved to vacate, pursuant to 9 U.S.C. § 10, and the union having moved to confirm, pursuant to 9 U.S.C. § 9, an arbitration award of October 25, 1965 that (i) the company had violated Sections 5 and 19 ( ) of a collective bargaining agreement between the parties by laying off one Edward Bradley and retaining one Neil Thompson on January 22, 1965, (ii) Bradley should be made whole for lost wages, less any amounts received from other employment or unemployment compensation, and (iii) Bradley should be considered as having been in the company's employ since January 22, 1965 for seniority and other purposes and Thompson should be considered as having been laid off on January 22, 1965 for seniority purposes; and
The Court having heard argument of counsel on December 6, 1965 and having received and considered their motions, pleadings, exhibits and briefs; and
The Court being of the opinion that the company's motion to vacate should be denied and the union's motion to confirm should be granted, for the reasons that
(i) The Court has jurisdiction pursuant to Section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185(a), and pursuant to such jurisdiction may enforce the remedies here invoked under the United States Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §§ 9-11, the Arbitration Act not furnishing an independent basis of federal jurisdiction;
(ii) The arbitration award is directly responsive to and squarely within the issue submitted for arbitration which in turn is well within the broad scope of subject matter jurisdiction agreed upon in Sections 23(1) and (2) and 24(7) of the collective bargaining agreement;
(iii) The arbitration award not having been procured by corruption, fraud or undue means, there having been no partiality or corruption on the part of the arbitrator, the arbitrator not having been guilty of misconduct or any behavior by which the rights of any party have been prejudiced and the award being a definite, mutual and final award, it is binding upon the parties pursuant to Section 24(5) of the collective bargaining agreement;
(iv) The arbitrator, in construing the agreement in those respects claimed to be ambiguous relating to principles of seniority in event of layoffs, properly sought "guidance from many sources", in addition to the plain language of the agreement, including past history of the agreement, past practices of the company and the parties' own interpretation and application of the agreement, ultimately grounding his award upon the agreement itself (United Steelworkers of...
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